Investing in the future WINCHESTER COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2010 Contents From the Warden & the Headmaster 2 Sir David Clementi & Dr Ralph Townsend A Financial Report from the Bursar 5 Jeff Hynam Investing in the future—Jonathan Davis 8 Bursaries – the way forward—Paul Dennett 10 A view from the East—Priscylla Lim 14 A chance to shine—Jen Weeks 18 Meeting the carbon challenge—Oliver Thorold 22 A sporting chance—Sam Hart 26 A Report from the Chairman of the 30 Investment Committee Mark Loveday Summary statement of financial activities 32 Summary balance sheet 33 A Report from the Chairman of the 34 Development Committee Robert Woods Acknowledgements 38 Benefactors, Patrons, Donations and Legacies Governing Body and Committees 48 Contact details inside back cover WINCHESTER COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2010 49 Welcome to Winchester College Welcome to our annual report for 2010, the year in which Winchester College became a Registered Charity. Whilst this marks a new development in the School’s charitable status, the educational benefit we offer has been accessible to a wide constituency for over 600 years. In 1382, the Founder, William of Wykeham, put up buildings in which seventy poor boys could live and learn, funded entirely out of the endowment he left. That principle has been in place ever since. The reforms in funding procedure stimulated by the Charity Commissioners are consistent with Winchester’s pursuit not of elitism but of excellence. And this excellence is shared and broadened not only in creating access for boys of ability who want to join our school, but also through our commitment to the community. In this annual report we tell the continuing story of the School’s activities and developments as well as offering a transparent account of its current financial position. WINCHESTER COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2010 1 From the Warden & the Headmaster Sir David Clementi (E, 1962-67) & Dr Ralph Townsend Sir David Clementi Warden Dr Ralph Townsend Headmaster The year 2011 sees the four-hundredth Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of anniversary of the publication of Revelation for the KJV. This work he carried out in the Warden’s Lodgings, in the room which now bears the King James Version of the Bible. his name and holds the unique collection of foreign- Exhibitions are planned all over the language bibles bequeathed by him to the College. country to celebrate what is commonly Until last year, Winchester did not possess a first recognised as one of the great literary edition of the KJV, but this ironic gap was filled achievements in the history of when the Warden and Fellows collectively donated English literature. that volume, now placed in a display case specially made for it and housed in the Warden Harmar Room. Winchester College was intimately involved in the This volume will be the centrepiece of the exhibition production of the KJV and we shall be holding our currently being arranged by the Fellows’ Librarian, own exhibition in School over the summer months. Dr Geoffrey Day, with the professional assistance John Harmar (1555-1613), Headmaster (1588-1595) of Mr Paul Quarrie. The exhibition will be open and Warden (1596-1613) was one of the great Greek to the general public during August. In September scholars of his day, holding the post of Regius all Wykehamists will be introduced to the exhibition Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1585-1590. as part of their Div programme, and schools He was responsible for the first Greek book printed from around the county will also be given an at Oxford, and in 1604 he was assigned as one of the opportunity to visit. Oxford scholars to work on the translation of the WINCHESTER COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2010 2 Looking back over the past year, the School is in good heart. The first results of the Cambridge Pre-U examination, of which Winchester is the flagship, were excellent and justify our decision to embrace this more challenging credential to underpin our senior academic programme. Sir David Clementi Warden & Dr Ralph Townsend Headmaster The Winchester Bibles Exhibition will be the central each symposium). An invited guest expert leads the event of 2011. All members of the Winchester day, in which a key-note talk is followed by group College Society and the Friends of the College will projects and discussion. A formal lunch is held in be invited to come and see it. School to provide an opportunity for wider intellectual and social engagement. The symposium Looking back over the past year, the School is in held in November 2010 was the tenth in the series good heart. The first results of the Cambridge Pre-U and was made up of groups working in Art History, examination, of which Winchester is the flagship, Economics, German and Design Technology and were excellent and justify our decision to embrace included girls from Downe House, Midhurst Rother this more challenging credential to underpin our College (for more on our links with MRC see Jen senior academic programme. Our Oxbridge and Weeks’s article later), St Swithun’s and City of US Ivy League numbers continue to be high. London Girls. Several of our 2010 leavers won prestigious awards to US universities. Our success in cricket, rackets Other meetings have included girls from St Mary’s and fives places Winchester at the top of those Calne, St Mary’s Ascot, North London Collegiate and sports nationally. Sam Hart reports on the progress Godolphin School, Salisbury. At the annual Studium of sport in the School in pages that follow. Music (a regular feature since 2002), held in October, when permeates the School’s daily life, as is evidenced in normal lessons are suspended for a day, the School the regular recordings produced by Chapel Choir welcomed among its guest speakers Sir Sherard and by Glee Club’s performances of such summits Cowper-Coles (on Afghanistan), John Pilkington of the repertoire as Bach’s B Minor Mass (performed (on ‘The Axis of Evil’), Alex Figden and Josh Ellis in the Cathedral in November 2010). (on information security), Charles Barda, Adrian Hornsby, William Shield and Malcom Moore (on As Jonathan Davis notes in this report, Winchester China), Ava Easton (on research on encephalitis), has in recent years eschewed any tendency to be Rear Admiral John Lippiett (on the Mary Rose), insular. As a matter of custom we welcome many Robert Hall (on the news machine), Lord Lawson visitors to the School as part of our academic (on global warming policy), Anthony Smith (on programme. For several years now two boys from the Charles Darwin), Oliver Kamm (on the economy), Johannes Kepler Grammar School in Prague, with the Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali (on the place of moral and status of Exhibitioner, have joined us for the whole of spiritual tradition in decision-making in the public Common Time, reminding Wykehamists they are not sphere), Professor Peter Littlewood (on chaos always the best mathematicians in Europe! Since 2006 theory) and Anil Gupta (on writing comedy). we have held a Winchester Symposium twice a year, in February and November, when sixth formers from Dons’ Common Room continues to be a lively, various girls’ schools join our boys for a Sunday of scholarly, harmonious assembly of excellent teachers and specialist advanced study. The day is planned around schoolmasters, and the pastoral care of the boys is in the four subject areas (there is a different combination for hands of a team of highly professional Housemasters. WINCHESTER COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2010 3 The Governing Body underwent a thorough currently studying at university who will form a appraisal by the Chairman of the Association of close-harmony choir as a specially-constituted Governing Bodies of Independent Schools in Cantores Episcopi. The Headmaster will address November and was judged to be carrying out its an international conference organised by Chinese affairs very effectively. Two new Fellows have joined educationists in New York in July (as he did in the Governing Body, Mr Charles Sinclair (B, 1961-66), Beijing last summer). and Dr Peggy Frith of New College. While Paul Dennett, in his article which follows, alerts us to the risk in means-testing for all Our registrations for places in the scholarships, the quality of Election candidates in School up to 2014 have never been recent years has been as good as ever. Priscylla Lim, healthier. We feel confident about in her appreciation of Science at Winchester, rightly our future and our distinctive observes that we will not compromise quality with popular “brand”. We do not shrink from searching place in British and international for solutions to challenges ahead, not least the issues education. of sustainability described by Oliver Thorold in later pages. Our registrations for places in the School up Various important events are planned around the to 2014 have never been healthier. We feel confident world during the coming year. At home, the most about our future and our distinctive place in British significant among them will be an Ad Portas and international education. Our ability to enhance ceremony, to be held in May, at which twenty-five access for those who cannot afford the fees without Old Wykehamist Fellows of the Royal Society and financial assistance is growing all the time, thanks to Fellows of the British Academy will be accorded the those generous donors who support our commitment College’s highest honour in being presented formally to building up the endowment for bursaries and for to the School in Chamber Court. The Winchester the maintenance of the Quiristers. We are most International Symposium which met for the first grateful for that support.